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A British company hired to buy medicines for Ukraine`s health ministry has succeeded in cutting prices by up to a quarter, in a rare success for anti-corruption efforts, The Guardian reported. Last year, under pressure from activists demanding action against graft, the health ministry brought in Crown Agents, a not-for-profit development company...

Economists have downgraded the growth projection for Ukraine`s economy in 2016 by 0.1 percentage points to 1%, but improved projections of the economic growth in 2017 and 2018 to 2.9% and 3.6%, respectively, according to an updated expert consensus forecast compiled by Ukraine`s Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. Experts have also...

Sergey Glazyev, adviser to the president of Russia, has called recent statements of the Prosecutor General`s Office of Ukraine (PGO) about his involvement in crimes against Ukraine`s territorial integrity and instigation of a war in this country as ”nonsense”, RBC reported. ”I will not comment on this nonsense of the Nazi criminals,” Glazyev...

Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions near the village of Luhanske, Ukrainian news service TSN reported. The militants were attacking the Ukrainian army with armored vehicles, grenade launchers and machine guns. One of the strongholds of the 54th Brigade was destroyed by a powerful mine. No casualties or injuries...

Former Minister of Revenue and Duties of Ukraine Oleksandr Klymenko and fugitive businessman Serhiy Kurchenko inflicted losses of UAH 198 billion on the state, said Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko in his speech marking the 25th anniversary of Ukraine`s Independence, RBC-Ukraine reported. ”According to data provided by a special group tasked...

Ukraine`s Cabinet of Ministers has approved draft amendments to the Tax Code outlining an increase in some taxes, adjusted according to consumer price indexes and industrial producers` prices. A decision in this regard was made at a government meeting, it was reported. Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk noted that it was a technical issue, which...

Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and President of France Francois Hollande today, August 23, the Kremlin`s press service reported. It is reported that the three leaders have discussed the internal Ukrainian crisis and the possibility of implementing the Minsk agreements...

Sleuth journalists from the TV program `Nashi Groshi with Deny Bigus` have revealed that the common-law wife of Dmytro Vovk, 27, chairman of the National Commission of Ukraine for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER), in February 2016, acquired a mansion in the village of Ivankovychi outside Kyiv with worth an estimated...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump urged the Justice Department on Monday to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate if donors to the Clinton Foundation got special treatment from the State Department when it was run by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, according to Reuters. Trump made the appeal at a rally before thousands of...

The rate of decline of Ukraine`s industrial production in July 2016 slowed to 0.2% compared with July 2015, while it reduced to 3.4% in June 2016 in comparison with June 2015, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. At the same time, Ukraine saw a 7% increase in industrial production in July 2016 compared with June 2016. Since the...